I see excessive fiddling with the body to be a sign of self-loathing including slathered cosmetics, cosmetic surgeries, spa parlors, etc. It may be connected to repressed sex drive in that there is a fantasy self in the making to be alluring. Really, it is polishing oneself as an object.
On Jan 2, 11:31 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real > determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and > one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is > ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex > drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them. > The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our > behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ? > Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even > though they are the real determinants of our actions. > The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are > free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely. > So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious > determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we > are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we > can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage > evaporates into thin air ! --
